Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune erosive polyarthropathy that can affect young women of childbearing age. In more than 50% of the women, RA improves by the end of the first trimester, and the disease activity is less severe during pregnancy. Moderate-to-severe disease activity during ...
Women under 50 when diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis were more likely than their counterparts without the condition to have their first new fracture even before age 50. While men with rheumatoid arthritis were also more vulnerable to fractures, that danger didn't grow until they got older. "Un...
Young women with chronic disease: a female perspective on the impact and management of rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis Rheum. 2003;49(6):846-852.Harrison MJ. Young women with chronic disease: a female perspective on the impact and management of rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis Rheum. 2003;49(6)...
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a common severe joint disease that involves all age groups, with maximum occurrence in young people and premenopausal women. There is a multifactorial cause of the disease, which includes genetic predisposition. It is characterized by typical chronic inflammation, initiated...
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic autoimmune disease that predominantly affects the joints. The prevalence of RA varies globally, with generally a higher prevalence in industrialized countries, which may be explained by exposures to environmental risk factors, but also by genetic factors, differin...
Women in this pilot study reported improvement in general health, vitality, self-efficacy, and several other measures, although not in pain intensity. "It seems to be a very feasible, practical treatment for patients with rheumatoid arthritis," one of the researchers, Kirsten Lung, a research as...
Thomas C.KingMD, PhD, inElsevier's Integrated Pathology, 2007 Rheumatoid Arthritis Rheumatoid arthritisis an autoimmune disease that typically presents in young to middle-aged adults. Women are much more frequently affected than men are. Morphologically, joints are inflamed, with a prominent lymphopla...
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic autoimmune disease that predominantly affects the joints. The prevalence of RA varies globally, with generally a higher prevalence in industrialized countries, which may be explained by exposures to environmental risk factors, but also by genetic factors, differin...
Rheumatoid arthritis doesn’t usually run in families and can affect anyone. It is the second most common type of arthritis in the UK, after osteoarthritis, affecting around 400,000 people in the UK. It occurs more often in women than in men. The main differences between rheumatoid arthritis...
Katherine Terracina, MD, assistant professor of rheumatology with McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, spoke with Healio about rheumatoid arthritis in young adults and how early detection from a primary care physician is vital for the best possible treatments.View...